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“A pleasant salad of amusing gossip, singularly free from spite or pretention, about the world of politics, literature and diplomacy.”—Spectator.
“Scarcely a name of interest in Paris, from the ’sixties to the present day, but receives some mention; and the celebrities with whom he has come most closely in contact are sketched in the style that announces the editor of the trenchant, lively, and observant ‘Gaulois.’”—Daily Chronicle.
MANY CELEBRITIES, AND A FEW OTHERS
By William H. Rideing
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“A book full of hearty enjoyment of the best intellectual company ... engages you from the very first page to the last ... the soul of picturesqueness.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
N.B.—Among the many well-known people who figure in Mr. Rideing’s book are: Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Sir Henry Lucy (“Toby, M.P.”), Lord Wolseley, Lord Randolph Churchill, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Sir Walter Besant.